Sinking Ship’s Giver wins at Daytime Emmys

The Toronto prodco, which received 17 nominations, took home the award for best educational or informational series.

Toronto’s Sinking Ship is coming home with a Daytime Emmy Award for its series Giver.

The live-action children’s show, which follows kids ages six to 12 as they work together to improve their local playgrounds, won for best educational or informational series. Sinking Ship received 17 nominations, including eight for Odd Squad and five for Annedroids, though neither series was named a winner.

The big winner on the night was Netflix, which took home eight statuettes from the 45th annual awards ceremony held Friday night in LA.

The streaming service, along with its longtime partner DreamWorks Animation Television (DWA), notched double wins for All Hail King Julien: Exiled and Dinotrux, while Trollhunters‘ win for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program marked the fifth overall Emmy win for the Guillermo del Toro-created series.

Other wins for Netflix included Outstanding Children’s Series for teen-skewing live-action drama Free Rein, and Outstanding Special Class Animated Program and Outstanding Directing in a Preschool Animated Program for A StoryBots Christmas.

Amazon, meanwhile, collected three Emmy wins out of its 30 children’s noms—two for long-running hit Tumble Leaf (Outstanding Preschool Children’s Animated Series and Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation) bringing its total Emmy haul to 11, and one for Danger & Eggs (Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program).

As for HBO’s Sesame Street, the iconic series earned the most Emmys for one kids show with four awards including Outstanding Preschool Children’s Series and Outstanding Technical Team.